Sylheti

Sylheti is the language of Sylhet, the north-eastern region of Bangladesh. It is also spoken by a significant population in the other north-eastern states of India and amongst the large expatriate communities in the United Kingdom, United States, and countries of the Gulf States.

There are over 10,000,000 speakers of the language throughout the globe, including 8,000,000 speakers in Bangladesh.

Sylheti is often considered to be a dialect of Bengali or an Assamese dialect due to many similarities between the languages. Nowadays, the Sylheti is written in Bengali script.